The Quest of an Adventurer
by Serge Kahili King
Paul Waters is an Alakai of Huna International and is known by many of you as the manager of Huna By Mail and as the leader of our Healing Circle based on Kauai. Recently, Paul has made the decision to return to the mainland US and carry on the Huna work in a new environment.
A number of years ago Paul wrote a book called The Adventurer's Quest, for which I had the privilege to write the Foreword. Since what I wrote then tells a lot about Paul's character, I have decided to honor him by reprinting it here.
"From the first time I met him Paul Waters demonstrated a sharp mind and a keen desire to extend his knowledge and effectiveness. Since then he has turned into a skilled healer and a talented writer, as this book shows.
"Paul's grounding in the Huna knowledge has been exceptionally thorough. In addition to reading everything available and taking workshops repeatedly, he took on the task of editing and remastering over a hundred audio tapes on Huna, which required listening to the material over and over again. Then he went on to learn video-taping and editing which led to hundreds of more hours of careful listening to and watching of live presentations. From learning he went to practice, becoming trained in Hawaiian Massage, Kupono Counseling, Hawaiian Shamanic Healing and Huna Teaching. Not content with that, he went on to organize Healing Circles, develop his own courses and tape albums, and now he has only begun to write.
"In this book you will fnd much that is from the Kahili Family tradition woven into what is clearly Paul's unique approach. Paul had a wide experience in esoteric studies as well as business and sports before diving deeply into Huna, and he brings that background into his writing in a way that makes Huna approachable and understandable to more people.
"The book's focus on the ability to make choices is a very good one. It permeates every one of the principles of Huna without being obvious. 'The world is what you think it is' implies that you can choose what to think and what to believe. 'There are no limits' suggests that any limits we experience can be accepted, altered, re-created or ignored by choice. 'Energy flows where attention goes' gives us the idea that by choosing where to place our attention we can influence the flow of energy that motivates, or even creates, events in our lives. 'Now is the moment of power' is a statement full of potential for choosing to be powerfully present or scattered and weak. 'To love is to be happy with...' says that even love and happiness arise from choices that we make, and 'All power comes from within' tells us in other words that choice-making is our inner power. The last principle, 'Effectiveness is the measure of truth,' indicates in a subtle way that you can choose to take someone else's word for what is true, or you can plunge into the stream of life and test it for yourself. The great strength of this book comes from the way that it follows the ancient cry of the Hawaiian prophet: 'Let that which is hidden become seen.'
"The verb 'to choose' is translated in Hawaiian by the word koho. As in English it carries the connotation of a positive expectation that good results will come from the choice. The root ko contains the idea of success, the root oho means to cry out, as if bringing attention to something, and the root hoa holds the magical idea of tying or binding. In such thinking a choice would be a magical act that would bind the outcome to the choice. But words don't stand alone in Hawaiian. A choice is made for an expected result, and the Hawaiian word for an expected result is pono, which also means 'goodness.' Simply put, your chances for a successful result are greatly increased when you choose with goodness in your heart. However, since the world is constantly changing, your choices may have to change with it, like choosing a new location for a picnic when it rains, or you may have to keep making your first choices over and over all through the changes, like a navigator who holds his course in a storm.
"Whatever the choices are that come up in your life, you will find abundant knowledge of how to make them and how to keep them in this admirable book, The Adventurer's Quest.
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